Anonymous ID: bc6290 Feb. 6, 2021, 6:20 a.m. No.12840309   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0316 >>0330 >>0361 >>0428

Marine Corps veteran selected as honorary captain for Super Bowl LV

Todd South

18 hours ago

 

James Martin was riding to a local basketball game near his Pittsburgh home with his wife when he got a call from a colleague at the Wounded Warrior Project.

 

That wasn’t out of the ordinary. Martin had been involved with the organization since 2013, shortly before he was medically retired from the Marine Corps when back injuries paralyzed him from the chest down.

 

Martin served 15 years in the Corps, joining in 2000 and retiring in 2015, nearly all that time spent as an artilleryman. He deployed to Iraq in 2003 and 2005 and Afghanistan in 2012.

 

Along the way he rose to the rank of staff sergeant, doing stints with Golf Battery, 2nd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment in the Target Acquisition Platoon and eventually served in the Wounded Warrior Detachment in Hawaii before leaving the service.

 

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https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/02/05/marine-corps-veteran-selected-as-honorary-captain-for-super-bowl-lv/